--TEST-- Test readfile() function: error conditions --FILE-- getMessage() . \PHP_EOL; } try { var_dump( readfile('') ); // empty string as $filename } catch (\ValueError $e) { echo $e->getMessage() . \PHP_EOL; } try { var_dump( readfile(false) ); // boolean false as $filename } catch (\ValueError $e) { echo $e->getMessage() . \PHP_EOL; } echo "\n-- Testing readfile() with non-existent file --\n"; $non_existent_file = __DIR__."/non_existent_file.tmp"; var_dump( readfile($non_existent_file) ); echo "Done\n"; ?> --EXPECTF-- *** Test readfile(): error conditions *** -- Testing readfile() with invalid arguments -- Path cannot be empty Path cannot be empty Path cannot be empty -- Testing readfile() with non-existent file -- Warning: readfile(%s/non_existent_file.tmp): Failed to open stream: %s in %s on line %d bool(false) Done